The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-07-21
NEWS IN BRIEF.

NEWS IN BRIEF.
There were six deaths in Columbia
, Monday from the effects of the heat
! The prohibition campaign in Ander-
son is becoming interesting. Both sidos
are hard at work.
/ The Terre Haute, Ind, Car Works,
with the exception of the foundry de-
partment, were destroyed by fire on
Sunday evening.
! y cyclone wrecked the opera house
and unroofed two hotels at Wauponi,
Wis, last Saturday evening, besides
causing other damage.
/ Tie celebration in Paris Friday in
commemoration of the fall of the Bas-
tile was observed in an orderly man
ner.
/ y Simla dispatch says that 10000 in
surgents have been gathered at Alag
hal to oppose the Ameer's General,
Gholan.
The Navy Department has ordered
steamer of the Coast Survey to be
, prepared to convey Queen Kapiolani
| and her suite to Honolulu.
twenty-five bodies have been recov-
cred OF those who lost their lives on
Sunday from the swamping of yacht
in New York Bay. Others are still
missing.
Julius Lucas, formerly of Charleston,
was found dead on sofa in his room
&, Spartanburg Tuesday morning. He
had been in failing health for some
time.
Mr.. James G. Blaine and Mr.. Andrew
Carnegie attended Tuesday the unveil-
ing of 4 monument at Dunfermline,
Scotland to Alexander I'LL, who ruled
in Scotland from l249 to 1886.
A building occupied by Ira J. Smith
as 4 saloon in the town of Fairmount,
Ind, was destroyed by dynamite on
Sunday night. No saloon is allowed
in Fairmount.
There have been no new cases of fe-
Yer at Key West, Fla, since July IL,
but there have been two deaths. The
record now stands: tai cases to date,
l19; deaths, 81; sick I. Nv, 81; discharged
cured, 80.
Hostile demonstration was made
Saturday al the German Embassy in
Bordeaux, and windows were broken
in the office Of the local government
office.
No additional information in regard
| to the condition of affairs in Hawaii
has been received at the State or Navy
Department. Washington since the
telegram of July 5, saying that affairs
were then quiet.
The convicts at the State Prison Of
Minnesota, at Saltwater, will begin
| the publication of weekly newspaper
about August Sth. The force will consist
Of four practical printers and an editor
in-chief, all prisoners.
A. D. Hill, Vice-President of the
New York Stock Exchange, suddenly
expired in the Exchange about noon
Friday. He had just announced the
death of a fellow member.
Prof. S. Z. Caugh man, of Lexington,
died Tuesday. He was principal of
the Odd Fellows Academy, Columbia,
just afte the war, and more recently
connected with the establishment of
G.. +. Jackson.
The Gambrinus : ssembly of Mil
| waukee, numbering 10000 members,
threatens to secede from the knights
of Labor on account of the temperance
views Of Grand Master Powderly.
The commissioner of pensions is in
| formed of the conviction at Knoxville,
Tenn, of Thomas g. Barry and John
J. Ball, charged with making false cer-
titicates, and of a plea of guilty made
by Samuel L. Sussong, to the charge
OF forcing an affidavit.
The congregation of the propaganda
is awaiting the report of the meeting
of eleven American bishops, presided
| over by Cardinal Gibbons, before pro-
nouncing finally whether the Vatican
approves or condemns the order of the
Knights of Labor.
The IntranZigeant announces that
the police at Grosgeren have discov-
cred documents which give evidence
of the existence of a socialist plot to
murder Emperor William Of Germany
while journeying to Gastein. Arrests
have been made of persons charged
with being implicated in the plot.
There are warlike signs in France.
The Senate has passeda bill increasing
the army by the addition of four new
c:.valry regiments and eighteen infan-
try regiments. The formation of a
, corps OF three thousand men is pro-
posed fOr the special protection Of the
Italian frontiers of France in case Italy
assists Germany against France.
1t is declared that Robert H. Cole
man, Of Cornwall, Pa, has determined
to build a railroad from Lebanon to
Reading, distance of twenty-eight
miles, at cost of 81, 100000 This is to
be done because the Reading Railroad
Company refuses to make excursion
rates over his Cornwall and Lebanon
Railroad in connection with its own
line.
The Emperor OF Germany bas sent
a check for 81 900 and two handsome
gold watches for the American sailors
who attempted to rescue the crew OF
the German ship Elizabeth on the Sth
of January last. The money will be
divided among the families Of the five
sailors who lost their lives and the
watches will be presented to the two
survivors.
A tenant named Byrne and two
baiiitls were seriously wounded while
cvictions at Coolgraney, Ireland, were
being effected. At the Kerry Assizes
three murder and two white boy cases
were postponed, the council for crown
declaring that it would be impossible
10 obtain jury the members of which
would do their duty. Judge O'Brien
denounced Kerry juries.
Mayor Francis, of st. Louis, Satur-
day morning appointed a committee
to carry the Invitation to President
Cleveland to visit that city during the
fall festivities. On this committee